Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, writer, painter, and photographer. A Cave Canem Fellow, she received the MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and the Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Delaware. Some of her awards include scholarships to Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Napa Valley Writers Conference, New York State Summer Writers Institute, North Country Institute for Writers of Color, Vermont Studio Center, and Soul Mountain. A 2007 Pushcart Nominee, her poetry, fiction, photography/fine arts has appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Comstock Review, Indiana Review, Puerto Del Sol, Ecotone, Delaware Poetry Review, Inkwell, Black Arts Quarterly, Lumina, Saranac Review, PMS: poem memoir story, Mobius, Torch, Boxcar Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, The Drunken Boat, Mosaic, The Acentos Review, Brilliant Corners, and numerous anthologies. She has read her work at diverse venues including Cornelia Street Café, Nuyorican Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, louderARTS, Busboys & Poets Café, Manhattanville College, Sarah Lawrence College, Kettle of Fish Reading Series, EARSHOT Series, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and many others.  She teaches creative writing at Bloomfield College and lives in New York.